A NICE summing-up of Serbia’s foreign-policy dilemmas was shown in a recent drawing by Corax, the country’s leading political cartoonist. Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia’s prime minister, is shown playing two pianos at once, with Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, conducting on one side, and Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, conducting on the other. The Serbian government is finding the Ukraine crisis is only adding to the political cacophony.In March Serbia abstained in a UN vote reaffirming the territorial integrity of Ukraine after Russia’s annexation of Crimea. As a candidate for European Union membership, it was heavily criticised for this by its partners. Officially …read more
Source: The Economist
